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When we talk about the surveillance of personal data we think first of all of China, which pushed the use of technology by law enforcement agencies to extremes, or of Edward Snowden, who revealed the extent of the interference of the United States services .
But in one wonderful investigation published on December 19, the New York Times talks about another dimension of the use of data, in this case by private companies to which we grant, without asking too many questions, the right to surveil us and track our every activity. In other words, we accept being spied on.
The US newspaper was contacted by a whistleblower who works for one of these companies, shocked by what he witnessed. The file the journalists worked on contains 50 billion data points on the activity of 12 million US citizens relating to a period of a few months, between 2016 and 2017.
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